Good News

As part of our overall mission to stimulate entrepreneurship and experiential learning within schools The Saville Foundation has, for the past 4 years now, funded a global competition called The School Enterprise Challenge.

As the year comes to an end, Awesome SA would like to thank you for your support. We invite you to celebrate some of the highlights of 2012. We encourage you to make Christmas meaningful this year and here’s to an awesome 2013.

South Africa is a country blessed with infinite possibilities and resources - yet many tend to concentrate on the negatives and forget that there are hundreds of people and organisations that are reaching out to others.

"As I write this, sitting at 'my' table at Cafe Latte-Tude in the Gateway centre in Umhlanga Rocks, I am filled with a deep sadness that I cannot live here right now." This post was written by Peter Curruthers and featured originally on PetesWeekly.com.

Table Mountain is one of the provisional New7Wonders of Nature based on the first count of vote results on 11/11/11 following a three-year global race to choose the world's seven most wonderful natural sites.

For many years South Africa has been promoted as a world in one country. Beaches, mountains, desserts, casinos, wildlife, shopping, we even now have snow ski resorts. How blessed we are to have it all.

I was Chairperson of the Anglo American Open Scholarship Panel for many years. Because we offered not only basic university fees but also a generous living allowance plus an overseas trip, it was like auditioning for Idols.We got an unbelievable response every year which involved some of the most intelligent matric students in South Africa.